The Afterlives of Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes - the author of such enduringly influential works as Mythologies and Camera Lucida - was one of the most important cultural critics of the post-war era. Since his death in 1980, new writings have continued to be discovered and published. The Afterlives of Roland Barthes is the first book to revisit and reassess Barthes' thought in light of these posthumously published writings. Covering work such as Barthes' Mourning Diary , the notes for his projected Vita Nova and many writings yet to be translated into English, Neil Badmington reveals a very different Barthes of today than the figure familiar from the writings published in his lifetime.

List of contents

1 Introduction: The Afterlives of Roland Barthes
2 For Henriette’s Tomb: Mourning with Mallarmé
3 Punctum Saliens: Mourning, Film, Photography
4 The ‘Inkredible’ Roland Barthes
5 Bored with Barthes: Ennui in China
6 Hitchcock Hapax: Realism Revisited
Postscript: Afterlives’ Afterlives
Bibliography
Index

About the author

NEIL BADMINGTON is a Lecturer at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Neil Badmington
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.04.2018
• EAN: 9781350066991
• ISBN: 978-1-350-06699-1
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, Literary studies: general, Western philosophy from c 1800, Literary theory, Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Structuralism and Post-structuralism